Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

fr, what did the fox call the hound?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox · What happens: call · To what, where: hound · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 call	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	nsubj
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hound	det
9	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 call	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past · do-support	the fox	the hound					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme hound=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

the lazy one who hid behind the bushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 hid	nsubj
5	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 one	acl:relcl
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 bushes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bushes	det
8	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	the lazy one			the bushes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind bush=Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the coward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coward	det
2	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

the thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 thief	det
2	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

the bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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